Unleashed Your Potential

How to make ppl realize tht you have the potential to be a leader, to hold bigger responsibilities? Shd you expect the leaders to simple pick & choose or pinpoint without any defined criterion? Of course not. Companies hv already established set of criterion for the potential leaders they want to lead the company in the future. But the question is of course if tht person is you? Some ppl might be so lucky being at the right time and the right place, some ppl hv to work hard for it, some ppl just know how to "suck up" and get away with "murder" and be promoted. Which one is you? Of course you can't choose to be lucky. Do you wanna to "suck up" your bosses? Pls don't...haha. You'll only survive when they are there. Once they move up or out, you might need to start "suck up" all over again, and it might be costly...hehe. My advice is work hard for it, and also don't forget to work smart. Improve your public speaking, presentation skill, understand wht the mgmt needs from you or the organization, learn, practice and implement, and not to forget to click with the leaders themselves. May be you can start slow but clicking with your boss and his click, then after your boss's boss, and so on. Get to know everybody important within te organization and make sure they know and remember you. This is highly important. But pls make sure you hv all the skill first and don't overdo. And the most important advice is, don't step on anybody"s toe while you want to move up. Remember you might need them to help you when you are up there somehow or the other. You might not be able to please everybody but if you manage to capture majority of them would be good. Just be nice to ppl even if they play hard ball on you. Don't think tht wht others think does not matter, it matters. So wht are you waiting for? Forget about your "shyness", afraid to overdo or afraid wht others might say about you. Like my friend used to tell me, if you attend any event, make sure tht ppl are aware of your presence (highlight), make an impact (communicate), and try to meet & greet as many ppl as you can (mingle). Remember, leadership can be learned, if you listen to a story, you hear a story, if you watch it, you can feel, if you read it, you can imagine, if you do it, you'll remember...

Game over

Of course hgh risk would produce high return, but the other end of the possibility is big lost. Looning at sime darby, young leaders have bigger risk appetite, hence they are more willing to take higher risk. But not not other ppl expenses of course. Leaders must also think tht his role is not only to make profit but to ensure long term sustainability. How to inculcate tht if all leaders are young, on short term contract. Like ot or not they'll focus on short term gain, high risk high retern on short basis too. Wow, this is serious...hope it's not gonna be "game over" too soon.... C'mon guys (leaders), I know you can do it...get us out of ths sh¥t asap pls...huhu

Ask wht u can do for the company...

Now u hv to ask wht u can do for the company, not wht the company can do for u...
Everyone has to ask himself or herself wht u can do to help the company better. No matter wht the condition of the company, u need to individually contribute the best to the company tht u r working with. You have to be passionate, work your best to deliver ur task, don't gossip, only focus on ur job, help others to deliver if the need so and try to save the company's cost as much as possible. You hv to act like the company is yours. If everyone work as if the company is theirs, and work with full of passion and determination, the company will surely survive any obstacles. How to achieve tht? Spiritual knowledge and understanding is very important, no matter wht religion. None of the religions teach its followers to do wrong or bad thgs. If everybody follow the right path, the company and everyone working with the company will be successful, now and in the future.

Generation Gap

Nowadays, there're a few generations working togather within an organization. The question is how those generations can work togather? The young generation thinks tht they know better bucause they graduated from the top universities. They concur internet & hence huge infomation & knowledge avaiable in the internet. Old generation is not internet savy, they only have past experience tht has already expired. The thg is tht both has a role to play and it would be great if the two generations combine their effort. Of course young ppl have knowledge and huge information, however they are lack of on the ground experience. Furthermore they don't have patient and keen to take high risk. Old ppl has more patient, more wisdom and huge experience on the ground. The two generations (or more) need to work togather to achieve better. CEO needs to understand better the advantages and disadvantages of each generation and make better use of their knowledge, experience and passion to deliver the best.

Technical Ladder Career Development

Wht do you think about dual ladder career development - technical & managerial level? Ths has been implemented successfully for so many yrs in universities, hospitals and R&D especially. You can be a professor with maximum salary grade or band, yet not holding any managerial post such as dean or vice chancellor in univ or you can be a cardio specialist earning five figure income and yet not holding any head of unit post or become director in a hospital. However to implement ths in any industry is almost impossible. For instance in transport or petrolium or in telecommunication or computer related industry. May be ths can be implemented in petrolium industry because the technology does not change that fast however in a fast moving industry such as computer, this is almost impossible (except for R&D or product development unit). One expertise can be absolute or comon in a few years or months. If ths happen, how to manage the staff tht has been awarded with the scheme? The interim solution might be special allowance for "hot skill" employees. Ths could be used to manage attrition but somehow will not solve problems of highly skilled staff those are loyal. But who said loyalty pays anyway, right??